Bloomin' Blog by Bloom Japan Network

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Now Japan is still in hot summer season but Japanese Sweet Pea growers already planted young plants for this winter production.

Japanese Sweet Peas grown in Osuzu Area, Miyazaki Prefecture is the most popular Japanese Sweet Peas in United States and many celebrities were fall in love on last winter due to its beautifulness and so sweet fragrance...

Growers in Osuzu Area in Miyazaki are producing world's finest quality Sweet Peas under the well-organized greenhouses. As pictures shown below, their green houses are unbelievably clean and they are producing top quality of Sweet Peas length around 50-60cm.

Our Sweet Peas season will be started from November, 2 months later. At beginning, length will be not reached to 50-60cm but we trust that quality on November is already much better than the one from California and Italy even though not matured stage production.

Japanese Sweet Peas are flying to US, Canada, EU, Asia and Middle East and our overseas buyers feedback us that vase life of Japanese Sweet Peas are amazing, it is really so long.

So please wait for 2 months for our starting shipment of wonderful Japanese Sweet Peas. We'll keep updated scene of growing of Sweet Peas from Osuzu area, Miyazaki Japan and also from other production area as well!

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Spring have come in Japan and now we are in season of changing Japanese flower products in our market. And following two key items in winter sales is now going to end of season.

1. Sweet Peas

Sweet Peas which was huge sales is going to end of season and now we can only supply from Hokkaido Island. It means available number of varieties is now quite limited. But you can get several colors and also stem cut Lathyrus odoratus too. So please keep trying to place order Sweet Peas from Hokkaido, the north island in Japan.

2. Ranunculus

Japanese Ranunculs is also going to end of season and now quite limited varieties are available. It will re-start season around November 2011. Thank you very much for choosing Japanese Ranunculus!

3.TOP 30 Japanese flower varieties on last year export to New York in Spring

Just for your information, here we listed top 30 Japanese varieties which you purchased in April & May 2010. We have shipped 161 varieties in April 2010 and 111 varieties in May 2010.

In this year, we are offering over double number of beautiful Japanese flower varieties compare to last year. So please try much number of varieties this year and provide information to your customers. Now we are offering 300-400 varieties every week this year in stead of 100 - 150 items last year.

3.Better Japanese Yen Currency exchange rate in 6 months

Now Japanese YEN currency rate vs USD is back to one of the better rate in past 6 months. It helps a lot on your purchase budget for Japanese flowers!

Chart for JPY/USD currency rate in past 6 month

5.Radioactive pollution rumors

Now many TV and News Papers are reporting about Japan's nuclear power plant crisis every day but please do not think too much. We are not selected flowers for export from radioactive contaminated area. And Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries (MAFF) announced officially that all Japanese flowers which is dealing at flower auction is now keeping in normal radioactive level. So please do not worry about radioactive contamination on our Japanese flowers!

If you have any questions, please contact with Flower office at Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (TEL +81-3-3593-6496 ). Also public comments in English about radioactive safety on Japanese flowers will be released by MAFF soon...

Announcement about Radioactive safety on Japanese flowers

by Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan

5.Pictures for weekly offer flowers are available

Now we are in process of big change on our Japanese flower offer due to season change to Spring. But now worry, pictures for all items on our weekly offer are available at following website. We update pictures on every Tuesday night in JST. Please introduce following URL to your customers so that you can got more inquiry requests from your customers!

Also please don't forget world's finest quality Japanese Lisianthus / Eustoma. Japan is the largest Lisianthus breeding country in the world and Japanese glowers are always producing latest varieties, not grown in overseas.

Japanese Lisianthus / Eustoma cut flower is really special, number of flower buds per stem is strictly controlled by Japanese growers which brings much beautiful & bigger flowers with ultimate long lasting.

Our US customers very surprised about longness of vaselife, they amazed about longness of vaselife as they realize that Japanese Lisianthus / Eustoma cut flowers kept their life more than 3 weeks!

Please also feel beautifulness of Japanese Lisianthus / Eustoma on our special website for Japanese Lisianthus / Eustoma now!

We donated our beautiful Japanese Flowers to MODA Botanica in Philadelphia, United State for their stand at Philadelphia Flower Show in 2010.

And their stand decorated with Many Kinds of Japanese flowers got many award e.g. 'Best in the Show' etc. And MODA Botanica's stand decorated with Japanese flowers have introduced on The Washington Post issued on March 4th.

During Philadelphia flower show, many floral designer visited MODA Botanica's stand and everybody surprised about beautifulness of Japanese flowers.

We trust that it was so nice promotion activity to show our flowers at Philadelphia Flower Show 2010, the oldest flower show in United State.